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Must of completely bombed after Monday when it was top 30. Was hoping for top 20 but o well, I guess some of it has to do with the film Unbroken having almost no interest at all here and Coldplay's longevity after Ghost Stories not being great either (with the exception of ASFOS, floating around top 50/60)

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Thanks :) I did see it around in a thread somewhere but it's better for it to have a new one

Oceans :)

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Watching Live 2003 for the first time in ages!! Gotta love Jonny's deep voice during Daylight :laugh3: Or it could be Will too, not sure lol

Do you want to write a review of the Ghost Stories era, which will be featured on the forums and on Coldplaying.com? Your reviews will be archived for Coldplayers to read for many years to come! Click on the link below for more info and simply post there to put your name down (for each month or multiple month reviews) http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/threads/103747-Your-reviews-are-needed! Be quick as the popular months such as April for Magic, May for the album release and July for the Albert Hall shows may be reserved straight away!

We need your reviews, just like in previous years, of Coldplay's yearly summary. This time, we are making a 'Ghost Stories review'. Pretty much the same as twelve months of Coldplay but 2014 was the year for celebrating Coldplay's sixth and slightly more downsized album! You can include non Ghost Stories stuff too such as A Head Full Of Dreams announcement at the end of the year, just most of what's come out this year has been Ghost Stories / GS live show related. Format is the same too, so we'll start off in January and review every month until the end of December. Then i'll be looking to do some interviews and polls for a final article after everything and that will cap off the beautiful era nicely :) Alright, so we need you to write the articles. Have a look at 2013's reviews if you need a guide on how to format it and what sort of content to include. For each month, you can get the content from the Coldplaying.com archives : http://www.coldplaying.com/2014/01/ Replace the 01 at the end with 02 for Feb, 03 for March, so on... For quieter months, if you want to find more content, you can go through the pages on the Coldplay / Ghost Stories forum. When you write an article, simple just make a new thread in this sub forum and post and save it in a word processor/google docs if you're not writing in one go. I will post/present it on the main site too once it's done. LIST OF GHOST STORIES ARTICLES - Volunteers - Deadline date January - Coeurli February - Sparky March - - Sparky April - - Sparky May - - Sparky June - - Sparky July - Grids - August - - Sparky September - - Grids October - - November - - December - Simply post (or pm me if you like) to reserve a spot. First come first serve! The articles do need to be completed by the date listed so make sure you have sufficient time :)

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I'll watch it on the iPlayer when it's added on there. Which part of the show was it on, at the start, middle or end?

President Barack Obama has vowed a US response after North Korea's alleged cyber-attack on Sony Pictures. The US leader also said the studio "made a mistake" in cancelling the Christmas release of The Interview, a satire depicting the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Sony said it still planned to release the film "on a different platform". Relived it will actually be seen! Obama is right though, they should not bow to empty threats. Was interesting when the FBI said it was North Korea or a source from there. It's gotta be there Government then as I don't think they've even got to the SNES era over there yet! :P

I always liked Coldplay because of Yellow, Trouble and In My Place then my first album was X&Y then got the previous two shortly after. My first proper album that really got me into music was How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb by U2, I had liked Oasis too but got into them late, just mainly singles really. Sams Town by The Killers was a big influence and so was Under The Iron Sea by Keane which was my first Keane album! Embrace, I got into with This New Day. Nature's Law is such a tune and I really got into them from that album. Come Back To What You Know (classic) and I Can't Come Down (from that album) are my favs :D I was into R&B for a short while because my sister always listened to it and old hip hop too which I still like. Anything that feels like its true and that's hard to find nowadays! michal - Very true. The production on Quarters is amazing too, that could of even been a hit now but now one wants to it out there I guess :/ At Once is another highlight for me too :D

I locked the old 'megathread' I'm a fan of Keane too :) I wonder if they will release another album. If they do, i'm sure they'll come back better :) I did like Strangeland though!

Aye, it's very sad. The list howyousawtheworld posted from 2005 is pretty much a lot of what I listen to still and I found it so easy back then to find new music. Now, have to listen online to certain radio stations to have a chance of finding an exciting new song or artist. My favourite radio station years ago was Kerrang and they played Coldplay, all of those bands, Muse, heavier rock and allsorts then they decided to shut their main station and moved off air around my local area and nationally I think and then, it wasn't worth listening to. Music isn't anywhere near as inspiring as it used to be for me before 2008-2009. I think the de-localisation of music (which was gonna happen from the download era) and everything being globalized, with pop music becoming even more manufactured has left the music is a bad state, in the UK anyway. Kids are part of that too, they can all download songs from their phone and basically be a large influence of what's in the charts and what artists record companies invest in :P I was listening to fucking Aqua when I was about 10, good thing I didn't have a phone where I could buy any track I want then haha ;)

Your thoughts? [video=youtube;Z9LH0ChM1eI] Loving the on screen lyrics :)

I'm sure most of you have heard the news of the hackers who breached Sony threatening to blow up theaters screening the new film, 'The Interview', where the plot is to kill North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un. The release has been cancelled by Sony. They didn't take note that they make Kim Jong-Un look like a pretty fun guy! :laugh3: [video=youtube;KpyVENBPj5c]

"It's just you, it's just us and nothing could be better!" <3

New single. Album, 'Smoke + Mirrors' is out soon. [video=youtube;4ht80uzIhNs] Wasn't sure on first listen but grows and I like it. I find 'Gold' more interesting though and hope the album is more of this and some rockier tunes :) [video=youtube;M2EIjONNjIU]

Which part? Embrace were never really big outside of the UK so might be alien if you're not familiar with the UK music scene. It's mainly summaries the career paths of the two bands, with the bigger band Embrace having Coldplay supporting for them, then Coldplay being a world dominating band, while Embrace faded into sort of obscurity!

Oo, my vote put Miracles ahead! It's a very close one as they are both really strong stand alone singles. Love the vibe on both, being dark / uplifting retrospectively but the factor that makes the difference for me are the lyrics Miracles. "Now i'm floating so high, I blossom and die" and "sometimes in your eyes, I see the beauty in the world". Those lyrics are right up there for me as some of their best!

Great article on Coldplay and Embrace (mainly written on the topic of Embrace's new album before it's release and around when Magic was released). Very interesting how much the tide changed, with Coldplay supporting Embrace while Embrace were 'massive' in the brit-pop era, then they sunk almost out of existence until Chris wrote Gravity in 2004 and a few more years of success followed. Embrace dived again because of the changing music industry and they didn't release any album anyway and when they did this year, despite it being a great album, their popularity was so low because the music they make is just not popular outside of their fanbase. It's a crazy story between two bands who are closely linked and by the sounds of it, Danny and Chris are still good friends! The Gwyneth quote is very interesting too, didn't spot that before! LINK A Tale of Two Bands… It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… In 2000, a young Chris Martin must have been feeling good about life. After his band Coldplay had released three EPs without troubling the charts, latest single “Shiver” had broken the top 40. Moreover, Coldplay had been picked to support popular West Yorkshire band Embrace, who were riding the crest of a wave of success after their debut single – 1997’s “All You Good Good People” had propelled their debut album “The Good Will Out” to number one on the album chart and follow up “Drawn From Memory” into the top ten. For Embrace, success was here today. For Chris Martin, success was just around the corner… In 2004, Chris Martin must have been feeling good about life. The last year had seen his band sell out three shows at London’s massive Earls Court Arena, Coldplay had won two Brit Awards, and this year, his latest hit was in the top ten and the accompanying album was at number one in the album charts. The only difference to 2003 was this was not a song written for Coldplay. The song was “Gravity” and Martin had written it for Embrace, with whom he’d become friends after that 2000 tour. Embrace and Coldplay were sharing success together. And then there was the small matter of that pretty Hollywood film star and her “British men never chat me up” message… In 2006, Embrace scored their third number one album in the UK, “This New Day”. The single, Nature’s Law went to #2. Then, in October of that year Coldplay began recording Viva La Vida which would dominate airwaves and concert stadiums across the world. In the meantime, nothing more was heard from Embrace for eight years.. But now, in 2014, it appears Chris Martin is feeling good about life once more. There’s a spring in his step. All things considered of course. There’s that whole “conscious uncoupling” thing, naturally, and swarms of tabloid press to worry about, who have always been about as welcome in the Martin household as bubonic plague. But these are minor irritations for a newly single man-about-town in possession of a large fortune. Coldplay’s new single “Magic” is out, sure. But even that is not why Martin is feeling good. He’s feeling chipper because he has heard the new Refugees EP by Embrace, and has given it his seal of approval. He may even be feeling a tad jealous he didn’t write it for the new Coldplay album… According to singer Danny McNamara on the XFM breakfast show Martin “was buzzing about it all, which is great because, obviously, he’s done alright for himself.” Martin is spot on. Although called the Refugee EP after the opening track, this four song EP might have been named after any of the tracks. Refugee is a three part epic, “Chameleon” builds to a strong chorus and crashing drums and “Decades” is the kind of song that would now make Bono weep. The EP is rounded off with the more sensitive “Bullets”. Four songs and all belters. For Embrace, the new EP and forthcoming album might just be a far, far better thing that they do, than they have ever done…

Someone posted a video on Youtube, claiming its 'official' by adding some polar bears and mountains to the audio essentially :laugh3: [video=youtube;ECHJd2Q63P8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECHJd2Q63P8